Chapter 468 – The King and the Princess

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‘Even with the previous use, as long as I don’t call out the foreign gods of the dimensional rift, the Avatar magic won’t explode.’

That’s why she put off taking out her magic book first, and she stands in front of Chimera with only a magic wand that has turned into a spear.

The three faces attached to the chimera glared at Layla with eyes as red as her blood.

“Hmph. The more you look at it, the more inefficient the structure is. If you have three brains, you mean three personalities controlling your body, right?”

Seeing such a chimera, Lila exclaims, as if pointing out a flaw in its structure.

Of course, this was a provocation towards the Chimera—and, by extension, Laplace, who thought he might have created it.

It wasn’t hard for Layla to guess that the chimera’s owner was Laplace.

Except for Almirage, who seemed to have escaped, all of the synthetic beasts were dead, but the Chimera showed no wounds or injuries.

‘Then. Is this the Behemoth that Laplace was talking about? For something like that, it doesn’t look that special.’

The Chimera grew and showed her teeth to see if Lyla understood her provocation of her, even though she seemed eager to pounce on her at any moment.

As a predator by nature, he knew very well that if he moved rashly, he would only be burned by her flames, just like before.

Instead, Layla’s magical poetry captures that the mass of magical energy that exists inside Chimera is slowly flowing towards her goat’s head.

‘The goat’s head could definitely breathe fire. Stupid Fire in front of me.’

Layla is an elemental mage who specializes in handling the element of fire.

To her, fire has no meaning. Specifically, while she is using avatar magic.

She was to become the flame itself, a symbol of wrath, destruction, and purification.

──That said, she must have been careless if it was Laila before.

As long as Laplace is a regressor, he should have information about Cleon and his friends around her.

There was no way that he would n’t have prepared for Layla to the Chimera he had created after confirming Layla’s appearance of her.

The strongest among the members of the investigation team that entered the underground was Layla Flamewatch.

“Innis. You can tell me.”

“Puha!”

When Layla said that, breath came out of Innis’s mouth as she stood beside her, holding a flambere of flame and having a snowball fight with the Chimera.

Her mouth was said to be the source of calamity, and that source had been blocked.

Perhaps as a reaction to being freed from it, Innis whined while looking at Layla.

“Master is too much! He suddenly blocks his voice!”

“You’re on your own. More than that, are you ready? When I give a signal, they’ll jump out together, okay?”

When he said that in a voice that only Innis could hear, Innis opened his eyes wide and nodded.

“Yes…! I will protect the Master!”

“Idiot. Who’s protecting who? Be careful not to break your body. Even if only the core remains, I can repair it with my magic. I want to use my magic to fight that guy as much as possible.”

When Lila says so in her downtrodden voice of her, does Innis care that she cares about him? Or is it because she really doesn’t want to use magic? I think for a while.

‘Should I think positively!’

She liked simple things.

“Okay! The strategy is ‘safety first’!”

“Yes, yes.”

After Lila skipped her words, she lowered her grip on the flame spear.

And, witches and sorcerers. And when the string of tension is pulled tight between the homunculus—

“Now!”

Innis, who was promised to move like that when Layla’s cry loosens the tension, rushes forward, using the flames of the Flamberge as a driving force.

The speed of the charge was like that of a chariot. In an instant, the flames scraped the ground, and her body rotated intensely, creating a huge wheel of flame.

“Master! Now is…”

And, the moment Innis’ sword was about to touch Chimera’s body her, Chimera’s paws lifted and blocked Innis’sword her.

When her goat’s mouth opens, magical energy is about to burst out from within.

“Huh! It’s a pity, but I’m immune to flames just like Master! Now! Master, now!”

And, if Innis turned her head to her side her in search of Lyla, who would have rushed with him in that state.

In its place, Layla did not exist.

“Eh.”

And, the moment after confirming the fact that Lila didn’t move from the spot she was in earlier while holding her spear her.

What was created by the magical power passed through the goat’s throat was not a raging flame-

“Hey! It’s cold!”

It was an intense snowstorm, as if it was blowing from high in the snowy mountains.

It wasn’t just a blizzard, it was a water torture itself made of showers + hail mixed with ice chunks and rainstorms.

Being strong against the element of fire means, conversely, having low resistance to the element of water.

If that was the case, if Avatar was being used, a fatal attack would have been made.

“Whew.”

As she heard Laila let out a sigh of relief, Innis, frozen in place like a winter frog submerged in her water, collapsed on the spot.

He will be alive Because he’s not a human, he’s a homunculus.

But Innis will remember this.

He wouldn’t have thought that the master he trusted would use him as bait to figure out the number of enemies.

[That’s too much. Lyla Flamewatch. She must be your creature.]

She must have been watching the spectacle. Laplace snorts at her when Laplace can’t stand it.

“I never thought I’d listen to a sermon from a villain like you. But you’re not in a position to curse me either.”

As Layla says that, three fireballs rise above her own head.

When the thorns of red flame crawl out from that fireball—

“Flare Spike!”

At the same time as she shouted, a total of 24 thorns of flame rained down like spear blades, aiming at the chimera in front of her eyes.

Chimera tries to block them with the same ice, snow, and rain breath as before.

When the goat’s head failed to gather mana and only let out a weak breath, the lion’s body moved quickly in the narrow space to avoid the thorns.

But, even that is pointless. The moment after Layla’s body her shakes like a haze.

Awesome!

Her body had turned to the back of the Chimera at some point, and she swung the spear of flame wide, cutting off the chimera’s snake’s tail and goat’s head at once.

[GRaaaaa!]

The high-temperature spear cuts through the body and burns it at the same time, blocking the wound.

If it was a type of monster that regenerated with its torso attached, even that possibility was blocked.

As the chimera’s screams of pain resound, he turns around and attempts to slash Layla’s body with her with her front claws of her.

But Layla was once again looking at her chimera as she distanced herself from her.

“I made it according to the tradition, and in order to kill me, I made it so that I can simultaneously handle conflicting magic powers, right? Of course, it causes a backlash inside the body. No matter how much a demon beast is, it takes time to handle the huge magic power of fire and magic power of water at the same time. “

The sound of Laplace’s tongue was heard.

[That wise. At the same time as I want to praise it, it is annoying.]

“Your praise is worthless. Well. Now that Chimera has lost its goat and snake’s tail, it has become a mere lion.”

In that case, it was just a lion with slightly higher physical abilities and the ability to manipulate magical powers.

Lyla thought that the goat’s head was also gone, and she stretched out her hand toward the lion.

One chant, without a single syllable to invoke magic.

From her hand her, she would fire a jet of intense flame, covering her chimera.

[GAAA…!]

His golden mane his is dried and twisted by the fire, and his body his will turn into a lump of charcoal.

Lila watched the scene in silence. As soon as I clenched her fist her.

The flames that burned Chimera’s body, which had been steamed with enough fire, grew so big that it exploded and swallowed everything at once.

As if the fire he had just seen was an illusion, it disappeared and faded away at once.

Of course. In its place, only the corpse of the Chimera, which had turned black, remained, unable to wriggle.

“I’ll praise you just for not melting. But is this the Beheimes you were talking about? Isn’t that too much bragging?”

To Layla’s question, Laplace does not return an answer.

Then, Lila snorts and approaches the frozen Innis.

“The core may be damaged if it is frozen for too long. Shall we thaw it for now…”

Then, when he puts his hand on the surface of the ice and sends out weak heat, the ice blocks that froze Innis’ body her melted away.

“Ugh, ugh… That’s too much, Master…”

And, when such a voice flows from the first part of the melted face of her, Lila speaks.

“Because you can’t hide the plan. That’s how well I know you.”

“…Hot!? That’s it!”

Innis felt like she had been acknowledged by the Master again in no time, and her voice her rose.

Laila felt a little sorry for Innis, but she didn’t express it.

“We’ve defeated the Chimera. Now, let’s go catch the braggart.”

Saying that, she tried to raise Innis who had collapsed for a moment—

“…Wow!?”

Lyla, at the strong presence from behind, she involuntarily stood up from the spot, turned her body to her, and fired her magic at that direction.

The magic manifested in an unprepared state is the simplest fireball.

But if dealing with it is RYLA, it’s already like a giant bomb.

It flies in a straight line and explodes.

Bang! When the spread flames while hearing the sound, it lights up the surroundings.

Along the way, she questions the fact that she didn’t bump into anything.

“Master! The Chimera I burned earlier… Where did it go?”

“What?”

And, the moment Innis spoke like that.

Realizing that the charred body of the Chimera had disappeared on the spot.

From the back, thump. Hearing a voice, the two turned their heads toward the entrance at the same time.

Then, there, I saw the Chimera, which had turned black and was moving even though life activities had stopped.

“How… -I can’t believe it, did you move on the ceiling…?”

Layla was surprised, too, that he could move enough to jump up, avoid their gaze, and turn around.

In the next scene, she couldn’t help but be even more surprised.

[Gaaaaa!]

The guy stood there, as if blocking Layla and Innis’ retreat, and then suddenly roared loudly.

OK. As the black charcoal, which had been clinging to it like a shell, fell to the ground as if it were scattered.

His original golden hair His, which had been hidden inside, reappeared.

From his back and tail his, he regenerated the heads of goats and snakes.

After that, the part corresponding to the guy’s side his swayed like it was boiling.

Chew! Hearing a sound, he suddenly spread his white wings that had not existed before.

“What…!?”

Even as Lyla is taken aback by the sudden change, she raises Innis and once again takes a fighting stance.

She realizes that what she sees in her magical poem Her is the huge mass of magical energy that exists inside the Chimera-in fact, it is not just magical energy.

[Beheimes is a legendary beast that doubles its size every day when the sun rises. Lord of the Earth.]

Then, thinking that she heard Laplace’s voice of her, who had n’t opened her mouth…

Jjaeok, the Chimera’s mouth opens.

“Ugh…!?”

What protruded from there was the face of a human male—an old man.

The face soaked in the chimera’s saliva speaks to Lyla while letting out an eerie smile.

“I said. I will show you Beheimes. He will rise again with each sunset, stronger and stronger. And one day he will become the lord of the land, just like the legend.”

“You… Did you use yourself as a material for the Witchbeast…!”

Laplace couldn’t hide her astonishment as she looked at Laplace, but Laplace laughed and returned to the chimera’s body.

“Uh, what happened, Master…? Why is that strange old man in that chimera?”

“…I don’t know how… I fused myself and synthetic numbers. And inside that chimera, there are countless souls mixed together.”

The souls, entangled like a skein of thread, when they try to escape from the body, are caught again and return to the body, as if they are attracted by each other’s attraction.

Each time, the size of the soul grows larger and the body changes, guided by the soul.

The reflection of the soul inside the body on the body was similar to Sasha’s magic image of her.

“Originally, synthetic water leaves only one soul, or leaves the soul of everything used as a material. So, synthetic water with multiple souls sometimes collides with each other and cannot move properly. One side If you leave only your soul, on the contrary, you won’t be able to properly control parts of your body that weren’t yours.”

Therefore, synthetic water has many combinations in many ways.

“But. If not only the body, but also the soul can be made into one.”

A composite number without defects. And, the greater the number of mixed souls, the stronger the power will be.

“You, how many beasts did you use to make that chimera?”

[I do not know. Although I did not count. Was the last tank number 666?]

In other words, a monster with the power of 666 monsters.

Whenever life is cut off, it will be revived on the spot and the body will gradually change.

“It’s dangerous… Isn’t it? Master.”

“…”

Lila closed her eyes for a moment at Innis’ words in her.

If you think that in order to get rid of this, even the soul must be burned.

‘Is there no choice but to use the power of foreign media?’

If it was a foreign agent in the rift of another dimension, it would surely be able to draw out a flame so intense that it would obliterate the existence in front of its eyes.

However, if that happens, let alone the investigation team outside, if control fails, it could cause a hellish horror in this area.

So, Lila shuts her mouth and sends a telepathic message to Innis.

[Cleon will arrive here soon. If it’s Cleon and me, he can do this guy somehow.]

[That’s right. If it’s Papa…]

Innis also showed absolute trust in Cleon, so he nodded his head.

“I have no choice but to admit it. That is, your ‘Beheimes’.”

[Your acknowledgment. It sounds like you should be grateful. But, it’s too late to talk about it now. Flame girl.]

And, the resurrected Chimera seemed to be 1.5 times larger than before.

Except for the range of wings.

The next moment, when the goat’s mouth opens.

The breath of the same blizzard as before was pouring towards Leila and Innis.

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When the sound of something exploding came from inside, Amelia flinched and trembled.

Al Mirage had been agitated since before, and while Amelia was careful not to get hurt by her own horn, she was trying to get out of her arms.

“Gee, calm down. I’m begging you…”

Amelia tried to calm her narcissist with her troubled face her, but the guy would n’t stop babbling.

“I don’t think Layla will lose. Assistants, you’d better go back to the surface first. It looks like Layla called Cleon. If you meet her along the way, at least show her the way.”

“Ha, but what about the professor? The professor, too, can’t fight…!”

As if he couldn’t stand it any longer, Artis lit a cigarette in his mouth and answered with a mumble.

“I’m in charge of this investigation team. Also, I received a request from the Dark Dragon Company to send Cleon’s party back to the capital properly.”

Whoa, and she will raise the corners of her mouth as she exhales the smoke from her cigarette.

“Besides. There should be at least one guy to keep an eye on these ruins so they don’t get destroyed.”

“Professor!”

The members of the investigation team asked not to say stupid things and to get away from them, but Artis did not pretend to listen.

“What will Amelia do?”

“… Well, since I can use recovery magic. If I have to, I can heal Layla. So-“

“Yes. Then Amelia will remain.”

Handing her candy to Amelia, who nods her head, Artis talks to her assistants her, who can’t take her steps easily.

“If you go outside, send a message to Herti. He may need help. If you don’t go out and everyone gets beaten up here, we won’t be able to communicate the situation inside.”

“I’m sorry…”

When they heard their professor say that, they had no choice but to start moving his feet.

And then, when they’ve gone that far, Artis sighs again and sits down in his seat.

“Whoa. It’s great, Amelia. Those guys, even if you look at them like that, they must have been pretty scared. But, since you, a child, were in front of them, they didn’t show any sign of that .”

“…I don’t think it’s scary either. That scene from earlier was horrendous. Thinking of it as a human being made your head dizzy.”

As Amelia answered Attis’ words, she held Al Mirage in her arms without realizing it.

“But. If you don’t get over your fear, you can’t move forward. Not to stand by her allies her. Layla might need my help.”

“…Well. That’s great, but that’s what I mean.”

Artis said that, and the moment he tried to inhale the smoke from his cigarette-

Quaang! An explosion rang out, and the door and wall next to the two exploded at the same time.

Then, something flew across Amelia and Artis’ eyes.

Slam into the hallway wall.

“It hurts…!”

Noticing that it was Innis’ body, Amelia and Atis stood up and turned their heads.

“Wow!?”

There, the chimera from earlier, four times her size her, was standing in front of her, looking down at Lyla.

“Hey hey…! What is that! It’s on a different level than before!”

Attis also stands up and fixes his glasses as if he is dumbfounded by the change of the chimera.

In addition to wings, horns, and scales sprouting here and there on the body.

Besides, in addition to the snake’s tail, another tail grew out, and it was a prickly tail like that of a scorpion.

“Lyla!”

Then, Leila, holding onto her spear, glanced behind her and shouted at Attis and Amelia.

“It’s okay! Ennis only got attacked because he tripped. The fight itself is still equal!”

After Lyla said that, she swung her spear loudly.

A slash of red-hot flame rushes toward the Chimera.

Moreover, Lyla was not one person, several Lylas were simultaneously attacking her Chimera from all directions and steadily slicing away its body parts her.

[GFaaaaa!]

Chimera roars and collapses once more.

But, pounding! And a heartbeat loud enough for Amelia or Artis to hear.

It reconstructs itself in an instant, and this time it grows a pair of legs and the size of its body becomes even larger.

“…Is it really Beheimes…?”

As Artis watched the moment of change, he was completely speechless at the form of a creature that defied many laws.

Amelia too, looking at such a chimera, she involuntarily wants to step back from her, but-

The next moment, Al Mirage slipped out of her arms her as the strength of her arms her weakened from her shock her-

It was to run towards Beheimes.

“Oh, no!”

Amelia quickly tried to catch him, but he couldn’t keep up with a human running speed like a witch beast.

The next moment, Almirage reached under the guy’s head and made a huge jump.

Just like that, he was trying to drive that wonderful horn into the Behemoth’s chin.

[Well? Ah. It’s the demon that escaped earlier.]

Considering that Laplace’s voice sounded like that.

Suddenly, a magical shield was created on the Chimera’s body of her, and Almiraj’s body was thrown out and landed on the ground.

“Almirage!”

[I didn’t pay much attention to it because it was a weak beast, but… Let’s absorb it now.]

With that said, if the Chimera opens its mouth and tries to swallow Almiraj in one fell swoop—

“Do you think I’ll leave it like that!?”

Lila moves again, blocking the opening of the jaw her with her spear. She protects Al Mirage.

However, his body was in flames, so he could not reach Almirage, so it was impossible to transfer it to Amelia.

“…Atis! Take Amelia and go further!”

And, when Layla said that-Artis grabbed Amelia’s arm once again as she suddenly came to her senses her.

“…Let’s go! It’s not at the level where we can already be!”

Despite Attis’ words, Amelia’s body her did not move from the spot.

It can be seen because she is sensitive to her magical powers. That Layla’s magic power was slowly running out of her.

Avatar magic is never omnipotent.

Of course, it causes magic events that transcend human limits and changes in the body.

Naturally, it consumes the corresponding amount of mana.

It is only natural that Layla’s magical powers she have limits as well.

‘If we run away from here, Layla…!’

I want to tell Cleon about this, but because of something blocking the flow of magical power that occurred from the moment Chimera appeared, no matter how hard I try to cast my voice at him through the imprint, I can’t reach him.

“Amelia!”

“——!”

And then, as Artis once again called her own name her, her rare cold sweat her Attis once again tried to lead her away.

Amelia, too, is she unable to do anything herself?

She herself without a pendant, is she just a burden to Amelia?

Thinking of the same thing, she tried to move her steps-

[The human body is also a magical medium. In order to fully express your power-]

The artificial spirit’s last words passed through her head once more.

Amelia was looking down at her own hands her.

‘Even without a pendant. …I want to protect someone. That heart doesn’t change.’

“I’m sorry, Artis. I will help Layla…!”

Then, Amelia turns around and runs to Lila’s side of her.

Waiting for Cleon and leaving Lila behind are deceiving themselves.

I don’t want to hide behind those two.

I want to stand by those two people and protect them together.

Her magic organ she sends magic power all over her body her as if responding to her heart her.

Even without the pendant, it was the first time something like this was possible.

Even if you don’t have the royal road, even if you don’t borrow someone’s power.

“Amelia!? Why aren’t you running away!”

“Haaaaagh!”

Layla panics and shouts at Amelia, but she ignores Lila’s words and jumps in front of her.

When a cluster of divine magical light gathers around her body her, Amelia is once again.

To fight for someone, this time without borrowing anyone’s strength.

For the first time, it was to bring about the awakening of her magical powers her with her own power her alone.

The next moment, if you think her whole body is surrounded by light.

[You are a foolish girl. What would you do with just that magic?]

Its scorpion-like tail swung around her, trying to pierce Amelia’s body her.

And, the snake’s tail rushes to Layla’s body and interferes with it.

“Amelia!”

Lila’s shrieking cry is heard, and the next moment her body is about to be pierced by the scorpion’s tail.

Thud! There was a dull sound of metal colliding with iron.

[What…?]

After Laplace doesn’t understand for a moment what happened-

Bang!

As the intense impact hit the Chimera’s jaw, the Chimera hesitated and took several steps back.

Thanks to this, both her tail her and her scorpion tail her, which were interfering with Lyla, bounced off and the Chimera almost fell behind her.

“Haha…!”

And, the girl landed on the ground.

“—Amel, Lia?”

Leila calls her by her first name her, but she struggles to decide if it’s OK to call her that.

It was because she was not the 10-year-old girl she had been before, but she had grown up into a figure of the same age as herself, even if you estimate her.

“It’s okay, it’s okay… Really. With my body as a medium, magic power…”

Amelia looked down at her own hands, seeing her body grow, and the armaments forged—

She clenched her fist, confirming that it was her dream of being the Frost Queen, and of herself growing up in her mirror world of her.

A pure white shield in one hand.

And in another hand, a pure white hammer.

A suit of armor that exudes the dignity of a royal family while overflowing with divine energy.

Amelia, the strongest self she remembers.

[Kuh…That’s, what the heck…]

Staring at the chimera, who managed to lift her staggering body her, Amelia stood between her and her chimera as if guarding Layla.

“Lyla. It’s okay. Me too, I’ll fight with you.”

“…Whoa. You’re taller than me. Really…”

Lila sighs, looks up at her from behind her, and turns her spear once again as she speaks.

“Okay. Protect me. Amelia. I’ll try to kill as many of them as I can.”

“…Yes!”

The wizard and the princess each grab their weapons and once again.

It was to run towards the king of the earth who was reviving again and again.